Is it ironic that my AI detector is ringing alarm bells at this comment (both its overall cadence, as well as it’s particularly unnecessary use of an em dash)?
This is nuts! Do you not read much prose written by other humans?
Books and scientific papers are the only places I see it used
And it makes sense that the AI is prioritizing it as these sources should weigh more
No one typing with a regular keyboard would ever bother, certainly not with the HN input box.
The comment we're talking about doesn't read like AI to me because of the use of parenthetical asides, although that just means I haven't seen a LLM that tends to use parentheses heavily.
Surely you still intended to type an em-dash if this happened—word on windows (as I presume you intend to refer to with 'word processors') only replaces '--' with '—'.
>No one typing with a regular keyboard would ever bother, certainly not with the HN input box.
You press 'option', 'shift', and '-' (on a mac with the default US english layout, anyway). Why would you assume nobody would use a basic element of writing (in English, at least)? It's just a long-press on the iphone.